Reform and perspectives on social insurance : lessons from the East and West
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Reform and perspectives on social insurance : lessons from the East and West
（Studies in employment and social policy, 14）
Kluwer Law International, c2002
Available at 22 libraries
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"A comparative study of social insurance in China, EU, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Sweden, Taiwan and the USA."--Cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The social security systems that, perhaps more than any other governmental programmes, have characterized the development of industrial societies are under siege. On the threshold of the 21st century, the future of social insurance is uncertain; it may even be seriously threatened. In this study, nine leading scholars probe deeply into the nature of social rights, trying to read the near future and locate the most meaningful and effective role that social insurance can play as today's new socioeconomic patterns develop. In-depth chapters analyse existing systems and recent and ongoing reforms in seven countries - Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States, Japan, Taiwan and China. There is also a chapter on the European Union's work toward a harmonized scheme to match other programmes of integration, and a chapter on the all-important interpenetration of social insurance and human rights. The authors clearly demonstrate that the unprecedented challenges faced by social insurance today arise not only from changes in the patterns of society, but also from lack of confidence and ideological prejudice on the part of both academia and public policy.
Table of Contents
- Social Insurance and Human Rights
- H.F. Zacher. The Social Insurance in Germany: The Bismarck Model and its Challenge in the 21st Century
- E. Eichenhofer. Social Insurance in the United Kingdom: The Fall of the Beveridge Model
- M. Hill. Social Insurance in Sweden: The Swedish Model and Its Challenge in the 21st Century
- E. Wandesjo. Social Security Systems in Europe Reacting to a Difficult Economic Context
- D. Pieters. Perspectives on Social Insurance and Its Reform in the United States
- G. Burtless. Reform and Perspectives of Social Insurance in Japan
- Y. Katagiri. Development, Reform and Perspectives on Social Insurance in Taiwan
- Ming-Cheng Kuo. The Construction of a Socialist Social Security System in China
- N. Chow. Contributors. Index.
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